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	<title>Brilliant Fixer reports on the Estonian economy &#187; Entrepreneurship</title>
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		<title>Smartpost expanding service to Finland</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/smartpost-expanding-service-to-finland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting in January it will be possible to send parcels from parcel terminals of the Estonian company Smartpost to Finland, where they will be delivered by the Finnish state-owned postal company Itella.
It will take three to four days for a parcel to reach the recipient. The price of the service has not yet been fixed, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3129&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estonia launched large-scale shrimp fishing in Barents Sea</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/estonia-launched-large-scale-shrimp-fishing-in-barents-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estonian ships last year launched large-scale shrimp fishing in the Barents Sea and the volumes of catch have been growing this year in the catch area where no quota in terms of amounts have been set.
Estonian ships are fishing shrimp in two areas in the Barents Sea. One of the areas is in the Spitsbergen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3148&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Companies sold a fourth less than a year ago</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/companies-sold-a-fourth-less-than-a-year-ago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kairikurm</dc:creator>
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According to Statistics Estonia, in the 3rd quarter of 2009, the net sales, total costs and total profit of the business sector decreased compared to the previous quarter as well as to the same quarter of the previous year.



According to the seasonally adjusted data, the net sales of enterprises decreased 9% in the 3rd quarter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3115&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Diagram: Net sales, personnel expenses and total profit of the business sector, 1st quarter 2002 – 3rd quarter 2009</media:title>
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		<title>Card maker Trub Baltic sees profit soar 82 pct in 2008</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/card-maker-trub-baltic-sees-profit-soar-82-pct-in-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kairikurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The profit of the bankcard, ID card and driver&#8217;s license maker Trub Baltic surged 82% year on year in 2008, reaching 11.2 million kroons (EUR 0.72 mln).
Sales revenue, at close to 78 million kroons, marks a year-on-year growth of 7.8%, the company&#8217;s annual report shows.
Trub described the results as excellent, singling out its success in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2994&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Water company Tallinna Vesi profit margin 66 pct!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even most optimistic analysts were surprised about third-quarter results of  Tallinn&#8217;s main water company Tallinna Vesi.
The company that is co-owned by City of Tallinn reported that its net profit for the third quarter was 102.3 million kroons or 15% more than a year earlier, writes Äripäev.
This is the company&#8217;s best-ever quarterly profit. In the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2964&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Estonia’s VKG to launch new oil shale plant</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/estonia%e2%80%99s-vkg-to-launch-new-oil-shale-plant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kairikurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The northeast Estonia-based Viru Keemia Grupp (Viru Chemical Group, VKG) that focuses on the production of oil shale will soon launch a new plant that cost 1.1 billion kroons (EUR 70 mln) and has an annual capacity of 0.9 million tons of shale oil.
Development director of VKG Jaanus Purga said the construction has so far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2958&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eesti Energia has highest market value among Estonian companies</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/eesti-energia-has-highest-market-value-among-estonian-companies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kairikurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weekly Eesti Ekspress has published a list of 100 Estonian companies of the highest market value drawn up by Gild Bankers, with the Eesti Energia power utility at the top.
The Gild list puts Eesti Energia&#8217;s market value at 7.4 billion kroons (EUR 473 mln), 26% higher than last year.
On year, the total market value [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=3000&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvesting period is timely this year</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/harvesting-period-is-timely-this-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kairikurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Statistics Estonia, by 15 September, 81% of the sown area of cereals, 21% of the sown area of rape and turnip rape, and 42% of the area under potatoes had been harvested.


Compared to the previous year when climate conditions were extremely unfavourable during harvesting period, the harvesting period is timely this year and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2907&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glamox to move its factory from Norway to Estonia</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/glamox-to-move-its-factory-from-norway-to-estonia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kairikurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norwegian industry group  Glamox will close one of four offices in its home country and will move production to Keila, Äripäev reports.
Lighting producer Glamox HE will create 15 new jobs. 
The move will help Glamox to save money and increase productivity.
“The production volume will increase by about 1/3. We’ve done earlier preparations since we lacked room [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2901&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silmet 1.4 mEUR profit last year</title>
		<link>http://brilliantfixer.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/silmet-1-4-meur-profit-last-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kairikurm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Estonian rare-earth metals producer AS Silmet made a profit of 22.4 million kroons (EUR 1.4 mln) last year; in 2007 the company made a loss of 3.6 million kroons.
On the basis of Silmet&#8217;s 2008 financial year report the company&#8217;s operating profit was 33.3 million kroons last year; the year before the operating loss was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brilliantfixer.wordpress.com&blog=2383706&post=2883&subd=brilliantfixer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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